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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






2. Triple conjunction Mars






3. Sedna overtakes Eris as the farthest known spheroid orbiting the Sun.






4. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






5. Solar eclipse of 7 min 14 s - Solar Saros 139. Exceeding 7 minutes of totality - this will be the first time this has happened in 177 years; the last one occurred on June 30 - 1973. when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot during 73 min






6. Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.






7. The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (comprising Saudi Arabia - Oman - United Arab Emirates - Bahrain - Kuwait and Qatar) hope to establish monetary union in this year. FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Brazil. 34th America's C






8. Cosmic Call 1 will reach its destination - the star Gliese 777.






9. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






10. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






11. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.






12. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






13. Two solar eclipses will occur in this year.






14. Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara people on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.






15. Venus occults Spica.The previous occultation of Spica by Venus was on November 10 - 1783. December 24 - The Moon will occult Neptune.






16. August will be the first time Pluto reaches aphelion since its discovery.






17. December 10






18. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System






19. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.






20. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.






21. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






22. Transit of Mercury.






23. Venus occults Spica.The previous occultation of Spica by Venus was on November 10 - 1783. December 24 - The Moon will occult Neptune.






24. There will be a Solar Eclipse on August 21.






25. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






26. Asteroid 2007 VK184 has a chance of 1 in 3030 of hitting Earth in this year.






27. Triple conjunction Mars






28. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






29. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.






30. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






31. Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.






32. Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara people on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.






33. Triple conjunction Mars






34. Transit of Venus on June 9.






35. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






36. Transit of Mercury.






37. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






38. 52 UTC - Venus will occult Saturn.






39. March 17






40. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






41. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






42. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






43. On December 2 at 12-32 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.






44. Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.






45. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






46. At 16-08 UTC on July 29 - Mercury will occult Mars.






47. 99942 Apophis has a 1 in 250000 chance of hitting Earth on April 19.






48. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






49. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






50. 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia. 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang - South Korea.